# [Outreachy]Amend error messages and prompts of various (sub)commands

2 messages from 2022-10-15 to 2022-10-17. Participants: NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE, Christian Couder.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/58627

## NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE, 2022-10-15 12:22

Subject: [Outreachy]Amend error messages and prompts of various (sub)commands
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Hi team,

My first microproject is still at seen stage, so I decided to look for
a good first issue from the repo to get more familiar with the process
of patch submission and I found I would be interested in
https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/635

The Git suite CodingGuidelines suggest this about Error messages, but
I found that git-compat-util.h contains die("Cannot handle files this
big"); which breaks one of the rules

I want to change it to die("cannot handle files this big");

Someone should give me a go ahead on this

Thanks,
Wilberforce

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## Christian Couder, 2022-10-17 13:58

Subject: Re: [Outreachy]Amend error messages and prompts of various (sub)commands
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Hi Wilberforce,

On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 3:08 PM NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE
<nsengiyumvawilberforce@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi team,
>
> My first microproject is still at seen stage, so I decided to look for
> a good first issue from the repo to get more familiar with the process
> of patch submission and I found I would be interested in
> https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/635
>
> The Git suite CodingGuidelines suggest this about Error messages, but
> I found that git-compat-util.h contains die("Cannot handle files this
> big"); which breaks one of the rules
>
> I want to change it to die("cannot handle files this big");
>
> Someone should give me a go ahead on this

You can do it if you want, but this would be a very small
contribution. This would be Ok for a microproject, but you have
already worked on one, so you should probably aim at something a bit
more complex. See the "Only ONE quality focused microproject per
applicant" section in
https://git.github.io/General-Microproject-Information/.

By the way, please put your possible mentors (Hariom and me) in Cc.

Thanks,
Christian.

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